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...men’s 7,945-meter race, the Crimson was led by junior Alasdair McLean-Foreman, who missed last season but made an impressive return with an eighth-place finish in a time of 24:48. Junior captain Reed Bienvenu narrowly missed a top-ten finish, taking 14th...
...beneath a dairy farm in Somerset County, Pa., gasping as the last of their air leached away, were delivered from their flooded mine. The first figure millions of TV viewers saw emerge from the land of the dead, cradled in a yellow rescue capsule, was the crew foreman, Randy Fogle, 45, sent up before the others because he had developed a heart palpitation...
Maybe it's about being foreman. Some people have explained Fogle's decisions by citing a simple workplace class distinction: he is not a mere laborer; he is management. This distinction has ramifications extending beyond the fact that he made $18 an hour to his men's $15. It suggests that he identifies with Black Wolf more fully than the others, sees his employers in a kinder light and is more comfortable returning. Observes Jim Lamont, Pennsylvania safety representative for the United Mine Workers of America: "I expected him to go back sooner than he did." One of the nine...
...pleasure, of being allowed to stand next to the Queen, the famously haughty Marie-Antoinette, as she played at the gambling tables. Alone among the throng at Versailles, she seemed to have little appreciation for the man who, she had been told, had once been "a printer's foreman." As she noted dismissively, a man of that background would never have been able to rise so high in Europe. Franklin would have proudly agreed...
...heartbreaking tragedy like McDonough. No longer able to work, he spends his days doing crossword puzzles and preparing again for court. That was not the intention of the first jury, whose award was based not on mere sympathy but on calculations of McDonough's direct financial burden. According to foreman Joanne Kramer, in arriving at the $5.8 million in damages, the jury considered everything from home health-care aides to a van, a wheelchair, the loss of his home and the loss of income for his wife, who spends hours every day caring for him. Jurors also discussed whether McDonough...